[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 136867] New: Should have a way to register GResources in web process

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136867

           Summary: Should have a way to register GResources in web
                    process
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Unspecified
        OS/Version: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Gtk
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: philip.chimento at gmail.com


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Sample package demonstrating the problem

Currently, for loading an HTML page from a GResource, such as:

webkit_web_view_load_uri (view, "resource:///com/example/my/resource/index.html");

you need to write a WebKitWebExtension and either compile the GResource into the extension, or call g_resource_load() and g_resources_register() in the extension's init function. It would be convenient to provide some API such as webkit_web_view_register_gresource(view, "/path/to/my.gresource").

See the attached tarball for a little program that demonstrates the problem. If you do not load the extension, then you get this message:

> The resource at '/com/example/WebKitTestGResource/resource.html' does not exist

Of course a workaround would be to load the contents of the GResource URI in the calling program, and feed it to WebKit with webkit_web_view_load_html(), but that disallows the HTML page from referencing other files in the GResource (which is why I included a CSS file in the example GResource as well.)

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